[Zope] receive a message whenever there is an update in a plone site through a pop-up/mail

[Reinoud van Leeuwen]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:19:36PM +0530, Karthikeyan palani wrote:
> Hi,
>      I am developing a content management system based on plone.I have a 
> requirement which is,
>     " whenever an update occurs in the plone site ,a message  containing 
> the place of update should be sent  to all the  members of the site."
>      I have got two ideas,i don't know whether it works
>      1>to query the Data.fs and retrieve data( i.e the object which has 
> been updated) from it  and send it to all the members. 
>      2>go to ZMI and in the portal_skins/plone_form_scripts/  go to 
> content_status_modify(handles the workflow transitions of objects)
>  and  include a code over here such that the objects which have been 
> updated should be found and a message should be sent to all the members.
> 
>  Now,my question is whether if any of the above can be done(i.e is it 
> possible to query Data.fs while the site is up)  or is there any other 
> solution for my requirement?If anyone knows an answer to this please  give 
> me an idea on how to do this and if possible send me a code example.

A more logical approach might be sending a message from the workflow. This
method is described in the Plone Book:


See "Using Workflow to Track Changes" on
http://docs.neuroinf.de/PloneBook/ch8.rst


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